Homalocephale

Field photograph to come

DV-0222Nemegt Fm., Mongolia

Homalocephale

DV-0222

Lived
72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Length
about 1.5 m (5 ft)
Group
Pachycephalosaurs
Found in
Mongolia
Named by
Maryańska and Osmólska 1974

Field notes

About Homalocephale

Homalocephale was a plant-eating pachycephalosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Homalocephale, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Nemegt Formation. It was named by Maryańska and Osmólska in 1974.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

2 finds

70 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

To scale

How big was Homalocephale?

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Homalocephale: about 1.5 m (5 ft) · Person: 1.8 m (6 ft)Silhouette: typical pachycephalosaur shape

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Eupachycephalosauria.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska. 1974. Pachycephalosauria, a new suborder of ornithischian dinosaurs. Palaeontologia Polonica 30:45-102